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The Department of Natural Resources is hosting an online chat at noon today on how animal survive the winter.

This is part of an ongoing series on subjects that range from sand mining to the cougars. All of them are archived.

In the cougar chat, ecologist Adrian Wydeven said that cougars could have a carrying capacity in the 100s in the state, "and areas with extensive forest cover in northern Wisconsin and central Wisconsin have best potentials." | Dec. 19, 2012